01-16-2008, 01:52 AM
I don't understand how they could offer a notebook without a way to replace the battery, or swap a spare in when you need one. Maybe I have limited imagination, but I can't see anyone buying one. Picture the travelling exec, working on a five-hour flight, and rushing in to a meeting, opening his Air and finding. . . a dead battery.
Also the lack of an Ethernet port seems foolish. Some people do not like to use wireless Internet access, for security reasons, and it is not available in many places that wired access to an office network is. An optional USB-Ethernet dongle is, I suppose an acceptable substitute, but it's one more piece of junk to carry around with your 'ultra-portable' notebook.
No optical drive I can understand; our Fujitsu PC tablets don't have them, for weight and space reasons. But the tablets have PC-card slots. No Express-card slot?
Not for me, thanks.
/Mr Lynn
Also the lack of an Ethernet port seems foolish. Some people do not like to use wireless Internet access, for security reasons, and it is not available in many places that wired access to an office network is. An optional USB-Ethernet dongle is, I suppose an acceptable substitute, but it's one more piece of junk to carry around with your 'ultra-portable' notebook.
No optical drive I can understand; our Fujitsu PC tablets don't have them, for weight and space reasons. But the tablets have PC-card slots. No Express-card slot?
Not for me, thanks.
/Mr Lynn